Re: Here comesGustav
- From: "CuckooCat" <silly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:59:34 -0500
(((((EP)))))
Sending prayers for you and Bruce.
xoxoxo,
Cat
"Edna Pearl" <edna_pearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Tgiuk.19465$De7.3756@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Since your post, Gustav has gathered strength and is now a Cat 4. No matter where it hits within the projected path, it is going to give us on the Alabama Gulf Coast a very, very bad day. I live 20 miles inland on high ground in a house designed to withstand the vicissitudes of hurricane country, and I have lived through dozens of hurricanes (some of my earliest memories are of hurricanes), so I know the drill and will stay put, as I always do. But the stress is terrible, especially given that we took a direct hit from Ivan, then the edge of Katrina one year later, three years ago. Basically, I have two "bunker" areas on either side of my bedroom where we can hunker down with hardhats if there's a breach. Long experience (including Camille and Frederick) has taught me to stay put during the storm to protect my property and then get the hell out as soon as the roads clear and until they get the power back on. Living in a post-disaster area without power is just a nightmare, and so is being away from your property during and after a storm, wondering how your home has fared. Right now, the job at hand is to bring inside or tie down all potential projectiles (flower pots, lawn furniture), identify and segregate valuables for storage and/or post-storm evacuation, etc., etc. It is an incredible amount of work, and three years is too short a time since our last TWO major storms.
My SO is from North Dakota, and still isn't used to hurricane country. He tends to freak out whenever there is a storm in the Gulf, and is overdoing with the hurricane preparations. The stress is particularly bad for him in that he has Crohns disease -- an autoimmune disease that is exacerbated by stress. And I'm a PTSD sufferer and just emotionally fragile in general. (I had to be hospitalized after Katrina.) So we're trying to remain calm and take care of ourselves.
I feel so for my friends in New Orleans (where I lived for three years, myself, and still visit frequently). You cannot imagine the amount of depression and PTSD symptoms that remain from Katrina unless you yourself know New Orleans. I remember a political cartoon from when we were waiting for Katrina (or was it Ivan?) that had the entire Southeastern U.S. consolidated into one state, which was labeled "Hunkered." That's what we're doing. Hunkering down.
ep ooooooooof
"Ian" <sum1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20080830.1412.8191snz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxJust been hearing on the /BBC World Service about this hurricane that
is approaching the Gulf coast; it's hitting Cuba right now.
It's a Category 3 storm now, winds of 145 mph, and could very well go
up to a monstrous Category 5, winds of 155 plus mph.
I find this almost impossible too imagine.
No one can say what part of the coast it will choose to hit yet.
--
Ian
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